I finally figured out how to resolve the issue. If you type "whereis firefox" you will see locations it is installed on your system such as "/usr/lib/firefox/" in my case. There should be a folder in there called distribution (if not, "mkdir distribu...
I absolutely agree and would go further by stating that it constitutes user hostile design. They know some people will want to disable it so they go out of their way to make it more difficult to do.