Unresponsive Mac: "Finder Web Content" Activity eat my virtual memory up to 4 GB

Since a couple of month my MacBook Pro Mid 2009 2.66 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB, 8 GB RAM, OS X 10.9.4 is becoming slower and slower.
On the activity monitor, sometimes shows up “Finder Web Content”, (see picture below), which take a lot the RAM memory and I always have to “force quit” the process before my virtual memory available becomes zero (0). The open apps are automatically paused and unresponsive. Does anyone have any experience with this issue?
I also upgrade my RAM memory from 4 to 8 GB and it looks like that this process, (Finder Web Content), just take all the memory available in that moment; it does not really matter how much free virtual memory I have left.
Further than that, my mac is getting particularly slow at the start up and when opening Apps and waking up. I regularly clean the library’s caches, applications states, trash, I reset my RAM, I verify and repair disc permissions and I have I tidy desktop…
I still don’t know what is it: is it just becoming old?
Any suggestion will be much appreciated. Thanks to all!!
All the Best,
Salvatore

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