rewislam

We're in an unfortunate situation with Safari. You can't have a safari extension unless you ship a native app on macOS. We don't have a native app on macOS, so what we've done is ship our iOS app as a Mac Catalyst app, this means that what you see on macOS is essentially the app for iPad, but running on macOS.

The problem with this is that when we drop support for iOS, which is often possible as many people update their iOS version quite soon after it is available, it also cuts support for macOS, as they are both tied to essentially the same version. We realise it's less likely or possible to update macOS, but this isn't something we can work around easily. The alternative would be to create an entire app, just for macOS, but the audience for specifically macOS+Safari is relatively small compared to macOS+Chrome.

Safari used to have standalone extensions circa 2019 I think, but since then it was only possible to ship a Safari extension, if it came with a dedicated native app (or Mac Catalyst app).

Hi, I work with Fred at Dashlane.

Two things here:

1. The Firefox issue has been an open ticket for quite some time: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536482
   I'm not sure when that will get resolved. However, if you use the Firefox Dashlane extension, we are developing it so it will handle passkeys which is the modern authentication based on the same WebAuthn technology used by security keys.
2. Signing into Dashlane using a FIDO security key is something we used to support, but unfortunately the number of users that used this feature was tiny compared to the costs to maintaining it. I'm a huge fan of FIDO based authentication and I'm excited about what we can do with passkeys, we are constantly looking to reduce friction and increase security, so this is something we're hoping to improve in future.

Hi, I’m Rew from Dashlane, helping out Fred our CTO…
Transactions depend on timestamps to allow us to synchronize data between devices. Our sync mechanism depends on our server code knowing the timestamps of the transactions, without this we would not be able to efficiently synchronize data.

Hi, I work with Fred at Dashlane.

Yes, we use e2e encryption, you can read more details about that from our white paper here:

https://www.dashlane.com/download/whitepaper-en.pdf

Passkeys will typically require a biometric check for use. This should prevent even unlocked devices being abused for their passkeys.

But with anything on phones, it's really important to setup a strong device passcode and also setup biometry, the screen lock is the best answer to getting your device stolen.