Process.Start(url) broken on Windows 8/Chrome - are there alternatives?

Question

To open a URL from a .NET application, many sites (including on StackOverflow) cite this example:

Process.Start(\"http://www.google.com/\");

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Answer 1

Use the Launcher object to open URLs.

Example:

await Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("www.google.com"));