why does openoffice always connect to internet in weird way?

So I keep getting this popup notification from my firewall about OOo. See the thumbnail.

Anyone know what this means and why it keeps doing it?

Thanks.

 

i wouldn't say its overly weird, OO is just using firefox for any internet activity just like msn uses internet explorer.

there should be an option to whitelist OO so that you don't see this warning

 

Thx for replying. What is this internet activity? Is it just checking for updates? It seems to do it too often. I just didn't know that programs like OO need to use another program (in this case FF). What does it need FF for? I think I had it happen where my firewall gave me that same message but this time OO was using Trillian rather than FF. That just seems weird lol. What is it doing with Trillian??