Remove search term tab groups setting and metrics

[MozillaNoah]

Follow-up from #26003 (comment)

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[Dakkaron]

This broke tab reordering.

[MozillaNoah]

This broke tab reordering.

Hi @Dakkaron, this issue only removed the telemetry and the option in Settings for search term tab groups; it didn't touch any logic with tab re-ordering. We've been doing some work in the Tabs Tray recently though, so if you make a new issue to track this bug, it will have better visibility and someone will start investigating it.

[Dakkaron]

@MozillaNoah Hi Noah,
I reset the app's data and cache and now it's working again. Could it be that the "tab grouping is enabled" setting could have persisted and thus the tab ordering was still disabled?

Sorry for the wrong alarm

[MozillaNoah]

@MozillaNoah Hi Noah, I reset the app's data and cache and now it's working again. Could it be that the "tab grouping is enabled" setting could have persisted and thus the tab ordering was still disabled?

Sorry for the wrong alarm

No worries!

Hmmm. The shared preference for search term tab groups technically would have persisted, but the logic to check for that was removed, so I'm not immediately sure. I'll do some local testing when I have a chance, and open an issue if I find anything.

[Dakkaron]

Thanks a lot!

Do you know if there are any plans to push tab ordering to the regular Firefox version? It's the biggest missing feature for me.

[MozillaNoah]

Thanks a lot!

Do you know if there are any plans to push tab ordering to the regular Firefox version? It's the biggest missing feature for me.

@athomasmoz or @kbrosnan might have some more context as far as business priority. With the Tabs Tray in the process of being rewritten to the new UI framework, Compose, I think re-ordering won't be live until at least the Tabs Tray is 100% converted. To that end, I just filed an issue to specifically track rewriting re-ordering into Compose.

• Move Tabs Tray to Compose: Tab Reordering #26476

[Dakkaron]

Thanks for opening that issue! Manual tab reordering is essential for any use case where comparing content in different tabs is necessary, e.g. comparing different products. This kind of use case is currently hardly possible in Firefox on Android.