That's what I'd like to know also. And if so, what is stopping a group of people from forking Chromium and building one that can turn it off? Chromium is open source, yes?

With everyone crying and complaining about Firefox on this thread, why not all get together and fork THAT browser too? There have been forks of software before...some MUCH bigger than a browser. Take MATE forking off from Gnome 2 when people didn't like Gnome 3 at the time. Look at LibreOffice. Why should Chromium or Firefox be any different?