Bug 200965

Chromium downloads a blob related to the hotword module without user request. This bug was already reported here (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435). 

The symptoms are obtained with the following version of chromium (default options) :
chromium-43.0.2357.125
Name           : chromium
Version        : 43.0.2357.125

At first launch, files are automatically downloaded as shown by the following output (just after a rm -Rf .config/chromium):

$ ls -l $HOME/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg/0.3.0.5_0/_platform_specific/x86-64_
total 4386
-rw-------  1 hukadan  hukadan  1181296 Jun  5 23:54 hotword-x86-64.nexe
-rw-------  1 hukadan  hukadan  896976 Jun  5 23:54 hotword.data

Going to the following address chrome://voicesearch/, the following information are displayed:

About Voice Search

Chromium	43.0.2357.125 ()
OS	FreeBSD
NaCl Enabled	No
Microphone	No
Audio Capture Allowed	Yes
Current Language	en-US
Hotword Previous Language	en-US
Hotword Search Enabled	No
Always-on Hotword Search Enabled	No
Hotword Audio Logging Enabled	No
Field trial	
Start Page State	No Start Page Service
Extension Id	nbpagnldghgfoolbancepceaanlmhfmd
Extension Version	0.0.1.4
Extension Path	/usr/local/share/chromium/resources/hotword
Extension State	ENABLED
Shared Module Id	lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg
Shared Module Version	0.3.0.5
Shared Module Path	/home/hukadan/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg/0.3.0.5_0
Shared Module State	ENABLED
Shared Module Platforms	x86-64_

A commit was done (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/f269d3b548203e217e8c0080c2e22e7ae3efb51e) to make a flag available in order to disable this downloading. The flag seems not to be available yet with the port version of chromium. 

Would it be possible to make it available ? 

Thank you.