This is not really new, but I don't remember seeing anything about it on this forum, so here (http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html) i (http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html)s a friendly reminder for anyone who was not aware of it.
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1791