Do disabled Firefox extensions make Firefox slower?

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Published on 2009-08-27T15:48:05Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 16:01 UTC
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Do disabled Firefox extensions make Firefox slower?

I know that extensions make browsing slower, but what about extensions that are disabled and not in use?

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