Firefox checks for new versions of your installed add-ons once per day, and at other designated times, such as when upgrading to a new version of Firefox. By default, Firefox will check the Mozilla Add-ons Gallery for updates, but individual add-on developers may set their add-ons to check their own websites for updates if they are not hosted with Mozilla.
Each of these checks contains the same information that every web request does: your IP address, browser version, operating system, locale, etc. Mozilla uses this information in aggregate for statistics and usage information.
GENERAL REQUEST DATA OF FIREFOX ADDON UPDATE [informational only]
GET /update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id=yslow@yahoo-inc.com&version=3.1.8.1-signed.1-signed&maxAppVersion=56.*&status=userDisabled&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=69.0.1&appOS=Darwin&appABI=x86_64-gcc3&locale=en-US¤tAppVersion=69.0.1&updateType=112&compatMode=normal HTTP/1.1
Host: versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: close
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
To turn add-on updates off entirely, follow these instructions:
- In Firefox’s location bar, type
about:config
- A warning may be displayed if this is your first time modifying Firefox config. If you wish to continue, click the button.
- In the Filter text box, type
extensions.update.enabled
- Double click the
extensions.update.enabled
item to turn it fromtrue
tofalse
- in the Filter text box, again look for
services.sync.prefs.sync.extensions.update.enabled
- Turn it from
true
tofalse

Firefox will no longer check your add-ons for updates.