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Something was going wrong with video playback. Unfortunately, this was about 10 years ago so I don't remember many specifics about what the problem was.

It was not as big a deal as you might think. In order to get a visa that we can renew each year, we basically had to prove these things:

-We have valid passports and identities -We are not going to take a French person's job -We have health insurance (so that we don't end up stiffing the French healthcare system) -We won't be homeless on arrival in France -We have enough savings to support ourselves for the time of our Visa's validity (because we're not allowed to work for a French based company while we're here, see second point)

I've been saving 50+% of my gross pay for the whole time I was working, and my wife is doing the same, so we had plenty of money available to buy plane tickets, pay lawyers to advise us, buy health insurance, and get help with the application process. Honestly, the lawyers were not needed and we're very expensive I would not use lawyer again. I used them because we needed to get out fast and I wanted to make sure that the first application would be successful. The instructions on the website for the French government were clear and straightforward and we could have done the application ourselves without major difficulty. There were even versions of the application forms available in English with checklists of documents to bring.

My wife is not French, but my mother, my stepfather, and my three step-siblings are. Unfortunately my mother naturalized here after I could have gotten French citizenship through her (I was 23 when she became a French citizen).

It probably didn't have anything to do with Firefox itself. It's likely related to something I messed up in FF or it was something to do with the ancient laptop I had at the time being a junk heap, but I tried Chrome and noticed that the trouble didn't exist there. So I started using Chrome.

I kept using it because of all the google integration, which was really handy when I was using the google business suite to run my own small business. I shut that down two years ago now, so there's nothing really keeping me on Chrome any more.

I swapped back to FF a few days ago and YouTube works fine now. So I'm back on the FF train and giving Google the finger the whole way over banning the adblockers that I liked.

For sure. There can also be a problem of too little moderation, though. There is a balance to be struck between censorship of opposing views and getting rid of off-topic spam.

For instance, there were a few regional subreddits that were obviously intended to be for thing like "Which restaurants are worth a 30 minute drive to go to" and "Come to my band's concert at the waterfront this weekend", but had turned into basically nothing but off-topic spam wars about national level political topics.

The mods refused to do anything about it, so I just left because 90+% of the content was stuff I didn't come to that subreddit to read. Keep that shit on r/politics.

Sounds like some very positive changes in your life. Glad to hear that you've been improving yourself.

My wife and I recently had to make a difficult but necessary change in our own lives, fleeing from the US to live in France while we wait to see what shakes out of the chaotic situation there over the course of the next year. Been starting in on the language learning, but it's been slow going.

Thanks, glad to be here. This place seems way more welcoming than I remember reddit ever being. But I was a little late to the party on Reddit, I joined in 2016.

I can certain only respect that opinion. I'd certainly like to port my stuff over here and delete it from reddit, but the community I would put it in doesn't exist on Lemmy.

I'd create the place here, but I am for sure not a good person to run an online community. I'm thin skinned and don't suffer fools gladly. That's the kind of moderator people generally hate.

Boy, that would have been good to know back in 2015, I feel like I let Google hoodwink me into using Chrome for all that time.

I made some good content on Reddit that I'm actually proud of and would like to remain up, so I'm not too excited about doing something spectacular to get banned.

Reminds me of a time that I told my boss the "text dick taking" was not working so well. We had a good laugh about that one later.

I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.

I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.

I was fed up with reddit and looking to make a change that won't put money in spez's pocket, arrived a few days ago.