[Solved]Thunderbird : 1 sec delay, drive spinning, when opening a mail

Hi everyone !
I have a pretty new Arch install (since yesterday !) and I'm pretty satisfied I almost solved all my issues (like dmix not being automatically enabled with my audio device, etc)
Except, a new one arose when I thought everything was getting perfect ;-)
A few hours ago (and even after a reboot ;-), Thunderbird began to take about 1 second to open a mail. All my mails are cached, so they just need to be accessed on the hard disk. When I click on a mail (any mail, from any of my 4 IMAP accounts), I can hear the hard disk spinning, accessing a lot, for a second, before it displays the mail. Even if this mail is already opened is another tab.
I'm pretty sure it didn't happen before. Meanwhile I just installed a couple of apps that have no obvious relationship with Thunderbird. (I use KDE 4.4) Like : kdenlive, handbrake, smile, avidemux. Before, when clicking on a mail, it would be displayed instantly.
I tried to re-create my TB profile, or to delete the .msf files. It made no difference. I tried to downgrade to TB 2.0.2 : no difference either.
Does any of you have an idea ? What may trigger this problem ? It is not that bad, of course, but it didn't happen before, I'm almost sure. And I'm 100% sure it didn't happen with Ubuntu Karmic.
Cheers !!
Last edited by torturedutopian (2010-03-03 09:21:20)

SOLVED ! The culprit turned out to be... "gecko-mediaplayer" ?!
This is really strange. Removing it made TB open my emails instantly again ! (or removing its config file in .config/gecko-mediaplayer)
If anyone has any idea why, I would be very interested ! (I'll have to find a good replacement as well

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