(firefox:6083): WARNING : Wrong permissions for /home/kevin/tmp/orbit-kevin

Firefox is starting to crash a bunch. I am running pclinuxos and after the last crash I typed "firefox" in konsole and got the following:
** (firefox:6083): WARNING **: Wrong permissions for /home/kevin/tmp/orbit-kevin
What is happening?
I checked the permission for that folder and it says kevin for user and group, and owner, group and others can view and modify content.
I have the following extensions:
downloadhelper 4.8.6
evernote
firefox sync 1.7
quickprint 0.1.2

Uups. Now, why didn't I think of that? Last update had 1GB of size installed. pacman -Scc fixed it, of course.

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Hi,
It seems to be /home directory is a NFS mounted directory from the other system. To change its ownership you need to login to the system as root and change the permission for mount options as -rw.
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Hi,
I have a problem with my /home directory. It has no
write permissions and I can't change that. The owner
of the directory is root but even if login as root I
can't change the permissions for the /home directory.
When looking at the properties for the /home directory
in the File Manager it says that the file is a
NON_WRITABLE_FOLDER. When trying to remove the
directory I get a message saying that the "Directory
is a mount point or in use".
Does anyone know what I have to do to be able to
change the permissions of the /home directory.
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