Firefox taking up to 3 GB ram after a few hours

Long story short, Firefox RAM usage gets really high after a few hours causing it to not display pages correctly (e.g. Google turns out all black at 3GB usage)
Addons:
Youtube Center
Youtube Unblocker
Web.de Mailcheck
selectivecookiedelete
Adblock Plus
Plugins:
Shockwave flash, rest is disabled
I did not have this problem before. I moved everything from the Mozilla folder in C:/users/USERNAME/appdata/roaming to a new pc (cause Firefox Sync is shit and doesn't even host EVERYTHING in its cloud), updated to 29.0.1 and it started to get these problems. All i can do is to close it down, wait a few minutes (cause the firefox process also runs hours after i closed the actual window; I have to shut it down manually with taskmanager) and restart it again just to repeat it every 1-2 hours.
I always love mozilla on PC (even though it's bad on Android) and am really disappointed.
The ram usage currently is more than Final Fantasy XIV on maxed out settings (firefox.exe 322.752 K, ffxiv.exe 300.000 K)
Fix this please, otherwise I am forced to switch to another browser.

Even though this has indeed run down the ram usage, the problem didn't exist before the update. I saw a video wrapping up the adblock-firefox problem:
The uploader navigated to this page: http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/index-html.html
Basically displays 300 i-frames, and the ram usage was at 300.000 K
After installing Adblock Edge (EasyList Germany), the ram usage skyrocketed to 1,2 gb in a few seconds.
Thing is, adblock basically loads the easy list to check for adverts 301 times, causing ram to be this high
According to this blog (https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-consumption), the devs claim to have given the addon a global rule, which brings us back to Firefox 29.0.1
I honestly think firefox has a problem there
And for those who are interested, this is the video i was talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ifjQfPP8Y

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