Addon Update self-hosting Non AMO update_url pointing to AMO

Add-ons
#1

The process of publish an extension in AMO is taking a long time.

I understand that it is possible to use a non-AMO extension and use the update_url entry to control the updates:
“applications”: {
“gecko”: {
“update_url”: "my server …

After completing the AMO posting process, is it possible for my non-AMO extension to point to AMO?
example:
“update_url”: “https://addons.mozilla.org/.../firefox/addon/…”

#2

If you wanted to migrate your users from a non-AMO version to an AMO version, all you need to do is have the non-AMO users update to a version that doesn’t have an update URL in its manifest. When there’s no update URL, Firefox checks AMO by default.