Frequent crashes - using 900,00k + memory, many tabs open - is memory usage an issue?

I am having frequent crashing of firefox, several times a day.
I do have many tabs open, 100+, and memory usage is around 900,000 and up.
I am wondering if the memory usage is causing the crashing, or something else I can fix?
My task manager says I am using 67% of available memory.
Total: 2941
Cached:1202
Free: 74
Total: 207
Paged: 153
NonPaged: 53
Page File 2981M / 6116M
Here are the id's of the last 10 crash reports:
bp-c79bc97e-d502-4319-a49e-7bc0b2130917 9/16/201311:38 PM
bp-19f60b05-f268-4693-b622-066f42130917 9/16/20139:59 PM
bp-f43d9597-9023-487a-90d4-994d32130916 9/16/20137:15 PM
bp-b552cdc4-6920-4eed-bff7-cb7cf2130916 9/16/20136:04 PM
bp-b62272cb-f4ef-4f30-acc9-4a1752130916 9/16/20135:02PM
bp-f4bebdd3-20f9-4444-8245-520c42130916 9/16/20133:08 PM
bp-bad99992-5b2b-4ac1-96bc-e03812130915 9/14/201311:31 PM
962c451e-dc19-4707-9def-b2dd5cd4caed 9/14/201310:07 PM
bp-8de4bc69-0f86-417a-9727-e88622130914 9/14/20132:29 AM
bp-6ae9815f-1472-492d-8738-1cd842130914 9/14/20131:01 AM

These crash reports can be hard to interpret, but at least the six from 9/16 seem to be "out of memory" (OOM) errors. Assuming that is the case, the question is what might be done about that.
This support article has a range of suggestions, including not having more than 100 tabs open and possibly useful add-ons. [[Firefox uses too much memory (RAM) - How to fix]]. In a bug report, I also saw an extension that displays the usage on the add-on bar, which might help in keeping an eye on it.
I noticed you have several dom.ipc.plugins.* preferences set to False, which may force some plugins to run in firefox.exe rather than plugin-container.exe. The design of the process isolation feature is that plugin crashes will take down plugin-container.exe rather than firefox.exe. It may also be that overriding process isolation is ballooning the memory usage by firefox.exe rather than more evenly distributing it between the two processes. You may want to restore those settings to their defaults and see whether that helps.
Finally, to reduce the size of your sessionrestore.js file you could omit personal data (e.g., cookies, form data), but this will make it a bit harder after a crash to get back to where you were.

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