Thank you for the informative reply, Whirly. I was hoping I'd missed a setting in prefs to fix this, or that it was even fixable by editing one of the xml files.
Perhaps this list was not displaying correctly in the default Second Life viewer where it *had* been displaying correctly in Firestorm for years -- alphabetically sorted and listing name first followed by time remaining -- where last part of name would be statically truncated by 6 characters for the full display of time remaining, example: Avi Arrow...(8640) directly in front of which was the hovertip (!) to pull up the resident profile.
As it is now:
Instead of "Avi Arrow...(8640)" we now have "(8640 min. remaning) Avi Arr..."
List is now sorted by least amount of time remaing and not alphabetically by resident name.
Upon first viewing, list now needs to be loaded twice for time to even display at all.