[subudeepak]

You are not paranoid. You could use Chromium which has relatively fewer connections to google servers. You could also look at alternative browsers that have been forked from the chromium project with an emphasis on privacy.

For example: WhiteHat Aviator.

If you are comfortable changing settings of the browser, you could disable most of the google connections from the browser. [The first things I recommend changing is the search URL, disable auto-completion, bad site checking etc.] Then you have the do not track header ..

Of course, if browsing privacy is your biggest concern, the safest browser is Lynx ;) [Though not truly practical for most cases]

[castor_t]

Thanks for the reply. Ofcourse, I disabled all the privacy settings that I can through settings in Chromium. But still, I could not avoid connections on startup on Chromium. It generally is not a problem, but I do not want Google to know whenever I open the browser :)