Why do I have so little free disk space and am running slowly?

My iMac is running very slowly, and I was advised to examine the activity monitor to troubleshoot. I am not technically savvy, but I can see that I have very little free disk space, and that Safari seems to be taking up a lot of memory. I'm not a haevy user, so I'm unclear what the problem is. Could someone explain in simple terms what's wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks

Jerry Kaiser wrote:
My problem seems to be greatest when I have both Safari and Firefox running.
There is a known memory issue with Firefox on OS X (Chrome has it too) first be sure your updated and check your plug-in compatability (both should be done auto-magically when restarting FF)
https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
Next time when you have a slowdown occuring, simply close all the open Firefox windows and that should clear the issue up.
What occurs is when one browses for sometime opening tabs, it asks OS X for more memory and then has trouble using what's been freed up by closed tabs. The issue has been occuring less often as updates have been rolling out.
If one has one more more other large programs open this also contributes to the issue.

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