Recovering from a "not responding" status which is in fact slightly responsive

Hi guys, my situation is as follows:
1. I have some important work which is unsaved in firefox
2. Have about 8windows x 5-20 tabs open, so about a 100 in total. Was okay all along with about 71% cpu usage & 1.2g ram usage for firefox.exe
3. I was pressing back button if I remembered clearly (happened a day ago), then it suddenly became unresponsive. (So the website is a site which I have visited before, shouldn't be a problem unless it updated)
4. Tried to mess around abit but nothing worked, till I switched windows using alt tab & saw the unresponsive script notice. Pressed stop script immediately, but due to the unresponsiveness, the pop up is only gone after few mins.
5. I used task manager to change firefox priority to high & waited for one day but no luck.
6. The thing which give me hope is that it didn't become totally unresponsive. Cursor not spinning when placed on firefox. Windows don't blur out. Though it reacts extremely slow. Switching between the firefox windows can take up to10 to 15 mins to load the graphics. Normal Mouse Cursor change to the text cursor if left on address bar for 3 to 5 mins.
I did not shut down the laptop for more than 3 weeks before this happened.
Is there anyway to get out of this state so that I can save my work before closing firefox?

Btw, it also happened once when I was using perfomance monitor to stop all unused services. Right after I stop mcafee site advisor, I looked up & the red"not responding" went away, but came back before I can utilise that period to switch to the right ff window & save my work

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