Why is FF 5.0 so memory hungry? It is barely functional, and then not for long.

On a 6 month old Acer that was functioning ''perfectly'' with the very latest 3.6.whatever version, it is now almost nonfunctional.
It is slow beyond belief. The "swirly re-freshing" symbol has moved into my house permanently.
I can barely open an IE window while FF 5.0 is running. If I can, it takes forever.
The entire screen freezes for periods of time while the "swirly thingy" insults me.
The entire screen will fade out if you get impatient & click something while the swirly thing is busy.
When the screen fades out, you're toast. You have to close FF with task manager, and you CANNOT retrieve any of your tabs when you bring it back up, because the 3 tabs that are supposed to work in the history bar, like Restore Previous Session are faded out & non-functional.
I am a professional sports writer. I have not been able to write an article in 3 days due to losing all my tabs when I upgraded, then losing them all again every day.
There is something wrong with this upgrade. My CPU cannot deal with it.
What's wrong?
EDIT:
There is a box titled "Troubleshooting Information" on the page I wrote this query on.
Below the box it says "Copy and paste the information from Help>Troubleshooting Information.
Guess what? That line is not a clickable link. When I pasted Help > Troubleshooting Information into the FF search it took me to a page with more options than fleas on a hound dog.
When I "paged back", I got what I expected, everything I had typed in this entire page except the question at the top was gone.
So far, everything that could possibly go wrong with this upgrade has happened. What's next?

Hi Brett,
I got the same issue and I am very frustrated about it.
Its the same thing I experienced in Lightroom 4 and its still not fixed. I cant use the book module because of that. So BLURB is not getting my money. :-(
I am waiting for that fix since more than a year, but Adobe says its a Problem which appears only for a small group of users.
HA HA just do a Google search!!!
System:
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Win 7 64Bit
i7-2760 @ 2.4 GHz
20 GB Ram
1st HDD SSD 256GB --> Catalog
2nd HDD HGST 1.5TB -->Pictures
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