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MailTab for Outlook/Gmail Energy Usage Question

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DramaLLama

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I recently noticed the Energy tab in the Activity Monitor of Mavericks and saw that the highest "Avg. Energy Impact" app was MailTab Pro for Outlook (app from the app store, there's also a Gmail version)... It also causes the CPU to spike every few seconds.

Has anybody here ever used those apps and deleted them because of the higher energy usage? Is it something that would even be noticeable?
 
I have the free version for gmail. Installed it few days ago. Never knew there was a pro version. There is also one for hotmail and yahoo I just noticed.

Some questions. Why is there only free versions for gmail and outlook. No free versions for hotmail and yahoo. Don't want to pay 99 cents. And What is the difference between pro and free (say gmail version for example). Besides no add or whatever.

As for the original question my cpu for the free gmail version is only 1%. And my energy impact is 1.4 and 1.66 average. So it must be your side.
 
I might try to re-install it.. hopefully it's not just the Outlook version that's buggy. Also I'm not sure of the differences.. I've started out with the PRO version because I liked the free version (which I only tried for a day or so before paying). I'd assume no ads in paid version (there are none) but I don't know what else differs.

edit: Also MailTab for Outlook suports Hotmail and MSN accounts according to the app store description.
 
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DramaLLama said:
I might try to re-install it.. hopefully it's not just the Outlook version that's buggy. Also I'm not sure of the differences.. I've started out with the PRO version because I liked the free version (which I only tried for a day or so before paying). I'd assume no ads in paid version (there are none) but I don't know what else differs.
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The Pro version of Mail Tab Pro for Gmail -- MailTabPro info
 
Alright so I literally just uninstalled MailTab PRO for Outlook, rebooted, and re-installed it again and it's doing the same thing:

First of all there's this:
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Then there's the average energy impact after just a few minutes of having it re-installed, it's already up to 9... before I uninstalled it, it was at 14ish so I can only assume it would climb back up to that after a few hours:
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And then there's the spikes in energy & CPU usage.. here it is spiking into 40.. typically spikes anywhere from 20-40 for a second before going back down and spiking back up a few seconds later:
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DramaLLama said:
Alright so I literally just uninstalled MailTab PRO for Outlook, rebooted, and re-installed it again and it's doing the same thing:

First of all there's this:
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Then there's the average energy impact after just a few minutes of having it re-installed, it's already up to 9... before I uninstalled it, it was at 14ish so I can only assume it would climb back up to that after a few hours:
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And then there's the spikes in energy & CPU usage.. here it is spiking into 40.. typically spikes anywhere from 20-40 for a second before going back down and spiking back up a few seconds later:
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Have you submitted a bug report / issue report to app dev -- Fiblab support
 
I'll be discontinuing my use of this app until I get reply from the developer..
 
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