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I am in the process of creating my first firefox extension and am starting to think about deployment.

There is a nice discussion about creating an template here and signing the extension here

But later down the road ... how does firefox know that an extension has been updated?

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  • I have seen Firefox printing information to the console about updating extensions, so if you're already using `window.dump` to develop your addon, you might see some output from time to time that lets you know that your extensions are being updated. – Tyler Jul 27 '10 at 18:50

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From developer.mozilla.org :

Applications will periodically check for updates to installed add-ons by retrieving the updateURL. The information returned can be used to notify the user of an updated version to the add-on as well as inform the application of new application versions that the add-on is compatible with.

More details about updateURL.

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