Pop Out: EF-Map Panels in an Always-on-Top Window Above EVE Frontier

Pop out is the no-install way to keep an EF-Map panel in view while you play EVE Frontier. The ⧉ Pop out button in a floating panel's title bar moves that panel into a separate always-on-top browser window, so the Killboard, a route list or a checklist can stay above the game in borderless windowed mode, or sit on a second monitor. It is an ordinary browser window rather than an overlay drawn inside the game client, so there is nothing to install.

The second button opens the Killboard, where Pop out sits in the title bar just before Minimise. Pop out is part of the desktop map. In Chrome, Edge, Opera and Firefox 151 or later the window stays on top of other windows; other desktop browsers open an ordinary popup window instead, and phones and embedded maps have no button.

How to Pop Out a Panel

1. Open a panel on the desktop map: the Killboard, Route Systems, the EF Helper window or any of the other panels listed below.
2. Press Pop out (⧉) in the panel's title bar, just before Minimise. The panel moves into a separate window of roughly its own size, and its place on the map shows a slim stub reading In floating window, with a Bring back button.
3. Add more panels. On a second panel the button reads Add to floating window, and that panel joins the same window as a tab. A Tabs / Stack switch in the window's strip shows one panel at a time or all of them together, and the choice is remembered.
4. Send it back. Return to map on a panel, or Bring back on its stub, docks it again. Closing the floating window returns every panel to its place on the map with its state intact.

What Stays the Same in the Floating Window

Pop out changes where a tool is displayed, not what it does:

Keep a Killboard, Route or Checklist on Top of the Game

A popped-out panel works as a lightweight EVE Frontier overlay for whatever you need between jumps. Route Systems can stay beside the game while you fly a route, a simple EVE Frontier route overlay. The Killboard can sit in a corner for a look at recent fights, with Refresh when you want a newer snapshot. The EF Helper window keeps its mining and combat telemetry in view, and a System Checklist, Item Codex or Blueprint Calculator lookup stays one glance away. The window can also be dragged onto a second monitor, so it sits next to the game instead of over it.

In Watch view, the big-screen layout, the Frontier feed and the Live Events card have their own Pop out buttons. Popping the feed moves the whole feed into the floating window and switches the tab to Map view for the session; returning it, or closing the window, puts Watch view back. The Live Events card pops out on its own at its expanded size while Watch view stays, and live rows keep arriving in both cases.

Borderless Windowed, Not Exclusive Fullscreen

The floating window stays above EVE Frontier when the game runs in borderless windowed mode. That was checked over the real game, including with the window moved to a second monitor. Exclusive fullscreen hides every normal window, this one included, so if the window disappears behind the game, switch the game to borderless windowed mode.

How It Compares to EF Helper's In-Game Overlay

EF-Map has two ways to keep information in front of you while you play. EF Helper is a free Windows desktop companion from the Microsoft Store that draws an overlay inside the EVE Frontier client, styled like the game. Pop out is a plain browser window that holds the EF-Map panels themselves.

The two work together: the EF Helper window in EF-Map can itself be popped out, and keeps showing the helper's telemetry.

Which Panels Have Pop Out

35 panels have the button, including the Killboard, Events, EF Helper, Route Systems, Routing, User Overlay, Shared Storage, Intelligence and custom intelligence panels, Query Console, Panel Creator, Gate Activity, Economy, Activity Tracker, Battle Replay, Log Parser, Display Settings, Session Stats, Scout Reports, Public Structures, Smart Assemblies, System Finder, Keeper Search, System Checklist, Region Stats, Item Codex, Blueprint Calculator, Asteroid Guide, Mullet Check and Discord Presence.

Tools bound to the 3D map do not have it: Cinematic Mode, Creator Mode, Director, Flythrough, Controller Flight, Explorer Cards, Universalizer and the Solar System controls. Nor do the games, the Tools Library launcher, or Awakened Cinema, whose video would reload when moved.

Browsers

Document Picture-in-Picture is the browser feature that keeps the window above other windows. On Windows, the ordinary popup can be pinned on top with PowerToys Always On Top (Win+Ctrl+T).

Limits

• Not over exclusive fullscreen. The window shows over borderless windowed mode only.
• Not click-through. The window is opaque, clicks land on it rather than on the game, and clicking it takes keyboard focus from the game until you click back into the game.
• The browser places the window. Chrome decides where it opens (bottom right by default), remembers its last size and position, and draws its own title bar. EF-Map cannot move or restyle that bar; drag the window where you want it.
• One window per tab. More panels join the same window as tabs. Refreshing or closing the EF-Map tab closes the floating window (a browser rule), and the panels reopen docked.
• The Killboard stays a snapshot. It shows the same indexed snapshot, timestamp and Refresh button as the docked Killboard; popping it out does not make it refresh more often.
• Some actions stay in the main tab. The Log Parser's folder picker, the EF Helper's local-network permission prompt and the wallet connect for Shared Storage open in the main EF-Map tab.

Related Resources

• EF Helper: the installed Windows companion with an in-game overlay
• Killboard: indexed combat snapshots, which pop out unchanged
• Watch view: the big-screen layout whose Frontier feed and Live Events card pop out too
• Route Planner: plan the route that Route Systems then lists beside the game
• EF-Map FAQ
• All EF-Map Features

Frequently Asked Questions