If you’re not providing a replacement extension, you could consider a relatively short notice period, perhaps a couple of weeks. In setting the timetable, you might wish to consider: There is no ideal period between publication of your end-of-life timetable and the removal of your extension from users’ browsers. Your hidden extension will not be available either to a search of AMO or an attempt to access it directly using the page’s AMO URL.

In the Listing Visibility section, click Invisible.

from the sidebar menu, open Manage Status & Versions.

Make your AMO listing invisible to prevent new installs. You might offer the user the option to remove the extension now or in a few days time. If your extension is being superseded by another, remember to provide a reminder about the link to the new extension. Before it does, provide a notice reminding the user about the removal of the extension. Use management.uninstallSelf() to cause your extension to uninstall itself. Publish a final, self-removing version of your extension.

communicate the timetable through social media, forums, or where possible by email.

You could use management.onInstalled to listen for installation of the new extension to trigger the removal of the original extension using management.uninstallSelf.

if your extension is being superseded by another, provide a link to the new extension.

update your extension’s page on (AMO) with its end-of-life timetable.

Consider the following options to advise people of your intention to take down your extension: Publish advice that you're planning to end-of-life your extension.

make the extension unavailable for new installs, by making its AMO listing invisible.

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