IOS 8 Safari hangs entering text

Since upgrading to iOS 8 Safari is regularly hanging when I enter text. It is so bad I have had to install Chrome to post this report (no problems at all with Chrome needless to say).
Safari just hangs and there is nothing to be done until iOS tears the browser down and reloads - at which point any entered text is lost ...
Any suggested fixes?
(iPad 3 by the way)
Thanks,
Och

Same here on 4th-gen iPad. 100% reproducible in certain spots. If I start to backspace and delete text, it gets real sluggish. I'm wondering if the spell check is causing it to hang. iOS 8 IS A DISASTER!

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