[ddalcino]

Reminds me of this other post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447935), which suggests the following solution:

If you create your own `~/thunderbird` directory, then Thunderbird will stop littering your home directory.

[bkdbkd]

often my solution. I usually touch 'ForbiddenFolder', then chmod the file a-x.

Yes, this does not unclutter the home folder, but it does keep a program from touching places I don't want it to.

I don't care to have the machine rm -rf'ing on its own.