Right, so I did some further testing and came up with the following:
- All seems to be working fine in IE
- As long as you don't alter any AWX settings everything works in both chrome and Firefox
- As soon as you (for example) alter the start page of AWX to albums and reloading the page, I get the above problem with not showing anything in the now playing box and play/pause + stop buttons not working
- After removing the cookies from AWX in chrome or firefox and reloading the page everything is fine again
Since chrome is my default browser I started debugging from there.
After enabling debugging in XBMC I noticed that when nothing shows up in the now playing box, pushing one of the corresponding buttons in that box wouldn't trigger anything in XBMC since nothing shows up in the log of XBMC when pushing the button, while in IE log entries would come up.
But nothing showed up in the console of chrome as well, so I tried firefox... It turns out something gets screwed up when altering the default settings of AWX resulting in connection problems as shown in the console of firefox:
http://pastebin.com/9NwH1JaL
Hopefully this will give a clue to where the problem is... If you need something else I'll gladly help!
P.S.
The console output is in dutch, if that presents a problem I'll get another language you'd prefer