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The Mozilla developers explain the reasoning at length.

They don't want to tie people to Firefox. So when a standards-compliant version of a CSS directive becomes available, they deprecate their own -moz version. Eventually they remove it.

The goal statement is that a page written using Firefox as the development browser will look the same for Chrome, IE and so on.

-moz defeats that purpose because it's browser-specific.




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