Are you? All web browsers I know of are written in C++ and always have been. In modern C++ you don't use char* to mean "pointer to byte array of unknown size",

Are you? All web browsers I know of are written in C++ and always have been. In modern C++ you don't use char* to mean "pointer to byte array of unknown size", you use std::vector. Moreover Chrome actually uses garbage collected C++ (they call it Oilpan).