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How to remove <select> dropdown's arrow in Firefox

As this bug report states, there is an issue regarding Firefox's -moz-appearance and <select> elements: it was supposed to ditch the <select>'s arrow (like Chrome's implementation) but it simply doesn't. People were raging about the subject all over the internetz.

Until now.

I figured out a clever workaround to make it work on Firefox. Here is how to do it:

  1. Set -moz-appearance to none. This will "reset" the styling of the element;