Why is Firefox so busy?

OK, I'll confess, I am a WEB site hoarder...
I find sites, open DOZENS of them, leave them open to
read-them-later/use-them-for-something/show-it-someone-else/forgot-to-close-
it, you get the drift...

At any point of time I always have dozens of open pages, just sitting there.

This morning, they were eating 50% of the power of EACH of my 4 cores...
Which bumped the processor temp to 53 degs C.
Doing nothing...
So I killed the flash plug-in (frequent culprit) to no avail...

So I bit the bullet and 'kill $(FFOX_PID)'

All cores happy...

I restarted Firefox and 'restored it' (which opened up everything I had
before) and the processor now barely feels the load. And is at a comfy 37
deg C.

Which begs the question:
What in the World was it doing before?
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