According to PCworld:

"This somewhat different entry in the browser wars is uneven, but very interesting."

Web browser XTravo Explorer surprised me. Although I can't say this
free browser is going to kick Firefox off my system anytime soon, it at
least has some interesting ideas. It's worth checking out.

Ad-bedecked websites covered in mangled English do not usually
bespeak a program worth reviewing, much less recommending. Trying to
figure out precisely what the developers feel is special about XTravo
Explorer is not easy, as their Web site is filled with phrases like
"The tools offer Developers to have a Tree view of the website coding."
A good bit of poking and prodding, though, revealed a few nifty
features.

First, XTtravo Explorer isn't a "Mozilla with a new skin", which is
what about ninety percent of "alternative" browsers are. With its
extremely minimalist interface, it resembles Google's Chrome
browser more than anything else. The interface "widgets" are very
small, so the vast majority of screen real estate is free for browsing.
Pop-up hints tell you what the icons do, and all the basic functions
are here: refresh, stop, back, next, new tab, bookmarks.

XTravo Explorer comes with a suite of potential default search
engines; I chose Google. There's a small search bar in the upper right
corner. What I found nifty about this is that, if you type your search
term and hit Ctrl-Enter instead of Enter, it instead searches Wikipedia
for you. This is a lot better than having two search boxes sucking down
your precious screen pixels, at least for those of us who regularly use
Wikipedia as a starting point for web activity. There's a built-in
picture grabber, which can quickly download all the images on a
page--an occasionally handy utility.

Another feature that XTravo Explorer considers to be unique is its
link to something called "XTravo Cloud OS by Eye OS". This is,
apparently, a Web-based operating system: Click the link and you are
moved to a "desktop" filled with "apps." This interface is less than
fully developed, and there are a few underwhelming programs such as a
spreadsheet and a text editor. I'm not sure why someone would choose
this over Google Apps, or if anyone else has ever heard of it, but it's
there if you want to explore it.

I found some annoying bugs. It took a while for me to get my
preferred home page to "stick." If you enable Xtravo Explorer's popup
blocker, it cannot distinguish between a Web page trying to hit you
with ads for herbal Viagra and you choosing a link with the "Open in
new window" option.

These are fairly small issues; the larger issue is if it's worth
replacing a well-tested and supported browser with a new entry from
left field. As a full-time browser, no, it isn't. However, if you like
trying out browsers just to see if you might get in on the ground floor
of the Next Big Thing, XTravo Explorer is worth at least a few minutes
of your time.

--Ian Harac