Yosemite Mail 8.0 and Safari 8.0 text input slow

Since I upgraded to Yosemite I have noticed that text input in Mail 8.0 and Safari 8.0 is extremely slow. Mail, however, is somewhat worse than Safari. As I type this there is a lag before what I type appears on the screen but in Mail it can be as much as three or four seconds - so if I make a typing error, trying to backspace and correct it can be a bit of a nightmare.
As far as I can tell, it does not occur in any other application. I have read reports of Yosemite being slow but nothing seems to mention this particular problem. That said, I have tried some of the fixes such as turning off transparency but nothing has worked.
Anybody any clues?

I'm looking at Activity Monitor and at the moment, under Memory > Memory, I see:
(plugin icon) Mail Web Content 2.0
Safari 1.22 GB
No other applications have anything near this. Even Photoshop with several images open only has 300 MB.
Is this normal?

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