Help feature broken in Xfce

Hello!
Hoping that one of the Xfce / Archlinux gurus can help me out with this:
when I click on About -> Help in Thunar or in any other application, or press F1, nothing happens.
I'm using Xfce 4.10.
How to fix this? Can it be related to the default browser setting, since the help can sometimes be viewed in an internet browser?
Thanks much!

Thank you, Trilby!
When running from the terminal, and then clicking on "Help", nothing more is displayed in the terminal window.
It actually seems that only the "xfce4 default applications" have this problem, i.e. any application below which has an "Help" menu:
% xfce4-
xfce4-about xfce4-display-settings xfce4-notes-settings xfce4-popup-notes xfce4-session
xfce4-accessibility-settings xfce4-keyboard-settings xfce4-notifyd-config xfce4-popup-whiskermenu xfce4-session-logout
xfce4-appearance-settings xfce4-kiosk-query xfce4-panel xfce4-popup-windowmenu xfce4-session-settings
xfce4-appfinder xfce4-mime-settings xfce4-pm-helper xfce4-power-manager xfce4-settings-editor
xfce4-clipman xfce4-mixer xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu xfce4-power-manager-settings xfce4-settings-manager
xfce4-clipman-settings xfce4-mouse-settings xfce4-popup-clipman xfce4-screenshooter xfce4-taskmanager
xfce4-dict xfce4-notes xfce4-popup-directorymenu xfce4-sensors xfce4-terminal
Also including Thunar.
The help is functioning properly (opens a browser window) in other apps like qBittorent, Orage Calendar, etc.
Any clue?
Thanks a lot!

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