make users update to chrome web store hosted extension from one which is not hosted on web store -

I have a version of the extension in the Chrome Web Store and distributed in other ways, I have users using a non-web-browser extension from a web store. Is there a way to update users on Web Store based extensions? 'Update_url': '' Could not be working in some other way?

There is no way to update an existing ID with an ID automatically with a different ID Another extension if you have maintained the same ID, non-web store users will automatically update to the CWS version.

The best idea is to update the old extensions that prompt users to install a new version and remove the old version.