I use bitwarden and passkeys. Things were fine, but recently (maybe in the last month?) after a brave update, Brave seems to always intercept passkey requests, before the bitwarden extension has a chance to react, therefore I am unable to use my bitwarden passkeys.
All password and passkey related brave settings are disabled (at least those I could find, maybe I’m missing something).
To reproduce:
- Use Brave with the bitwarden extension (possibly any 3rd party password manager that supports passkeys will repro, but I didn’t check another one).
- Go to say, Google, and try to login using a passkey.
- I would expect bitwarden to pop up and offer to use the passkey I have stored.
- Instead I get a Brave pop up telling me to use a hardware key.
My Settings:
and
I would expect Brave to do nothing so I can use my bitwarden passkeys.
Brave Version:
Version 1.63.169 Chromium: 122.0.6261.111 (Official Build) (arm64)
Safari with bitwarden works fine by the way, so I’m fairly certain this is a Brave thing.
Also this topic here seems fairly similar, it’s probably the same issue: Brave is managing my passkeys even though it's set NOT to