Alf Megson

Q: 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?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 8GB RAM, 750GB Hybrid HD + 1TB HD

Posted on Nov 8, 2014 9:01 AM

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  • by Alf Megson,

    Alf Megson Alf Megson Nov 11, 2014 6:33 AM in response to Alf Megson
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    Nov 11, 2014 6:33 AM in response to Alf Megson

    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?

  • by Alf Megson,

    Alf Megson Alf Megson Nov 18, 2014 9:11 AM in response to Alf Megson
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    Nov 18, 2014 9:11 AM in response to Alf Megson

    I have just updated Yosemite to 10.10.1 and the problem remains.

     

    Incidentally, I tried launching Mail with the only Mail plugin I have, Dockstar, uninstalled and it didn't make any difference.