Bug
To be a correctly working and displaying Material Design progressbar.
It's not displayed correctly.
Just open the progressbar from the docs with Firefox.

Angular Material 2.0.0-beta.12
At least Firefox 56
This is a really strange issue. When hover over any element with the inspector, the problem disappears. As soon as I exit inspector mode it reappears.
I'm not sure anymore if this is really an Angular MD issue rather than a Firefox issue.
I am fairly certain its a firefox regression, as nothing changed in the progress-bar code and this issue can be seen occurring a few version back as well.
However, I was not able to reproduce it when I extracted the dom structure and css out and ran it separately. It will definitely require more investigating.
Firefox team changed their css engine recently.
I've triggred a bug in BugZilla - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1406623
As an update, it looks like the regression will hopefully be addressed in FF 58
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I've triggred a bug in BugZilla - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1406623