chrome/ium data-source plugin uses no-longer-supported api (NPAPI)

When I go here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zeitgeist-plugin/cckhkmhbknngejnoepfopckjlbnpookg

to install the Chromium plugin for Zeitgeist, after confirming the installation/permissions, a yellow info bar says "NPAPI plugins are not supported."

No history from my Chromium use seems to be logged in the Activity Journal.

I use Chromium as my primary web browser -- my version info (major version 39):

Chromium: 39.0.2171.65 (Developer Build) Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on LinuxMint 17.1
Revision: b853bfefba0da840f4574eb3b5c7ad6e9b8573b5
OS: Linux
Blink: 537.36 (@185325)
JavaScript: V8 3.29.88.17
Flash: 16.0.0.235
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/39.0.2171.65 Chrome/39.0.2171.65 Safari/537.36

REASON:

See here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation

chrome://flags doesn't seem to have the Enable NPAPI flag anymore; the api seems to be not only deprecated but, in recent versions, well and truly gone.

SUGGESTED FIX:

This is what the Chromium devs suggest for a replacement for communication with native apps:
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging

Replacing the data-source would probably entail building a browser extension to watch activity, and then building a zeitgeist sub-process of some sort that can communicate over JSON w/ the extension. It will also be necessary to put a file describing how to start the "host" (i.e. native, zeitgeist-side) process in a Chrome/ium subdirectory.

Other alternatives (probably not relevant) are described here:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation#TOC-Alternatives-to-NPAPI

IMPACT:

For me, and I think for many users, the vast majority of my computing is on the internet. There are many days when I don't open a single desktop application besides Chromium. While I can still get benefit out of Zeitgeist by using Synapse, it won't be possible/worthwhile to form the habit of accessing the desktop primarily through the Activity Journal or suchlike until Chrome/ium is supported. Also, it feels like a huge hole in Synapse for it to ignore my web usage -- especially when it *doesn't* ignore the few pages I've visited in Firefox. So, for my use case, this bug is moderately severe.

I'm willing to do some work in making this happen; I have general programming experience, although I haven't any experience with Chrome Extensions or any of the relevant languages except JS and Python, and I'm not sure I feel confident taking on this whole project by myself because I've never successfully built an app or plugin of any size on my own, and only once in a group. Get in touch and tell me what you need done!

Thank you.
-- Robbie Eginton