Comment 1 for bug 1731278

After deleting my browser grid settings (via eg/staff/admin/workstation/stored_prefs), on a 3.1-beta server, I'm seeing something similar to this bug on Chrome (though not the same order of columns that Kathy described). But in Firefox I see exactly the expected columns in expected order. Some research revealed that JavaScript sort in Firefox is stable, while it is unstable in Chrome. This means our current column-sorting code relies on browsers to maintain sort order of "equal" columns during the sort process, but some browsers don't play along. The solution is for us to explicitly track and maintain the column order that we want. Dan Wells has a branch for this, coming soon.