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The experience of logging into PayPal with a passkey on Windows will be different from logging into the same site on iOS or even logging into it with Edge on Android. And forget about trying to use a passkey to log into PayPal on Firefox. The payment site doesn't support that browser on any OS.
I'm a Firefox user, and this hurts. When I attempted to have Bitwarden create a Passkey for me, I saw it didn't support Firefox for Passkeys at all.

I haven't seen anything about Passkeys that I feel makes it better than what we have already.
 
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I saw it didn't support Firefox for Passkeys at all.
That's bad "support" from PayPal. As a customer you should at least complain... even if they never end up doing it the CORRECT way by checking the browser for support rather than hard coding which browsers offer the support. (This is no doubt actually a Google lock-in situation, no doubt Firefox reports its support using the officially agreed standards but Google backdoored all that and some tired dev took the "easy route" rather than doing it the more difficult but "officially standard" way.)
 
Until I can easily move passkeys between my home computer, work computer, tablets, and mobile devices, I'm not ready to move over to passkeys.
 
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