Thunderbird stuck at 'checking password' when adding gmail account

Hi
I successfully added my gmail account to thunderbird on my windows pc but I'm not able to do so on arch.
On the windows pc I used the default setting thunderbird proposed, I tried the same on arch but without success...
The setup is stuck on 'checking password...'
Any advice?

I cannot believe the swiftness of your the help on this forum, within seconds you guys fixed the problem, and the account was added with no further issues. The people on this forum rock!!!!!
I am now beginning to suspect it indeed had to do with that first lot of wrong passwords.

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