Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

My apologies. I do not know who wants to claim ownership of this issue. Please distribute as you see fit. Thank You.

I downloaded Firefox10 and after declining Adobe I found ~/.adobe and ~/.macromedia folders in my user directory. I tried everything to try to prevent this from happening. I finally applied root forbidden permissions on the user folders. When I closed Firefox10 I found the root folders now had user permissions and files were populating the folders.

ps: I must have done something right because now Adobe gives me an internal error instead of the splash screen. Success in part.

I don't know how Adobe does it but I found a way to do it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Apply root permissions to a user folder - as a user rename the folder (apparently this is allowed) - as a user recreate the original folder with user permissions.

i.e.
as root create a folder /.adobe with forbidden permissions
as a user rename the folder /.adobe.???
as a user create a folder /.adobe with normal permissions


Actual Results:  
The folder with root forbidden permissions has now changed to user permissions that allow entry.

Expected Results:  
A user should not be allowed to rename a root folder.

Hope this helps.