diff --git a/share/functions/help.fish b/share/functions/help.fish
index b06fbd42c..2e027541d 100644
--- a/share/functions/help.fish
+++ b/share/functions/help.fish
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ function help --description 'Show help for the fish shell'
             # We use this instead of xdg-open because that's useless without a backend
             # like wsl-open which we'll check in a minute.
             if test -f /proc/version
-                and string match -riq 'Microsoft|WSL' </proc/version
+                and string match -riq 'Microsoft|WSL|MSYS|MINGW' </proc/version
                 and set -l cmd (command -s cmd.exe /mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe)
                 # Use the first of these.
                 set fish_browser $cmd[1]
@@ -136,13 +136,13 @@ function help --description 'Show help for the fish shell'
         # Help is installed, use it
         set page_url file://$__fish_help_dir/$fish_help_page
 
-        # For Windows (Cygwin and WSL), we need to convert the base help dir to a Windows path before converting it to a file URL
+        # For Windows (Cygwin, msys2 and WSL), we need to convert the base help dir to a Windows path before converting it to a file URL
         # but only if a Windows browser is being used
         if type -q cygpath
-            and string match -qr cygstart $fish_browser[1]
+            and string match -qr '(cygstart|\.exe)(\s+|$)' $fish_browser[1]
             set page_url file://(cygpath -m $__fish_help_dir)/$fish_help_page
         else if type -q wslpath
-            and string match -qr '.exe' $fish_browser[1]
+            and string match -qr '\.exe(\s+|$)' $fish_browser[1]
             set page_url file://(wslpath -w $__fish_help_dir)/$fish_help_page
         end
     else
@@ -165,22 +165,23 @@ function help --description 'Show help for the fish shell'
             echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=\''$clean_url'\'" />' >$tmpname
             set page_url file://$tmpname
 
-            # For Windows (Cygwin and WSL), we need to convert the base help dir to a Windows path before converting it to a file URL
+            # For Windows (Cygwin, msys2 and WSL), we need to convert the base help dir to a Windows path before converting it to a file URL
             # but only if a Windows browser is being used
             if type -q cygpath
-                and string match -qr cygstart $fish_browser[1]
+                and string match -qr '(cygstart|\.exe)(\s+|$)' $fish_browser[1]
                 set page_url file://(cygpath -m $tmpname)
             else if type -q wslpath
-                and string match -qr '.exe' $fish_browser[1]
+                and string match -qr '\.exe(\s+|$)' $fish_browser[1]
                 set page_url file://(wslpath -w $tmpname)
             end
         end
     end
 
     # cmd.exe needs more coaxing.
-    if string match -qr 'cmd.exe$' -- $fish_browser[1]
-        $fish_browser /c "start $page_url"
-        # If browser is known to be graphical, put into background
+    if string match -qr 'cmd\.exe$' -- $fish_browser[1]
+        # The space before the /c is to prevent msys2 from expanding it to a path
+        $fish_browser " /c" start $page_url
+    # If browser is known to be graphical, put into background
     else if contains -- $fish_browser[1] $graphical_browsers
         switch $fish_browser[1]
             case htmlview x-www-browser
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ function help --description 'Show help for the fish shell'
     else
         # Work around lynx bug where <div class="contents"> always has the same formatting as links (unreadable)
         # by using a custom style sheet. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4170
-        if string match -q 'lynx*' -- $fish_browser
+        if string match -qr '^lynx' -- $fish_browser
             set fish_browser $fish_browser -lss={$__fish_data_dir}/lynx.lss
         end
         $fish_browser $page_url