Quicker remote operation through CORBA?

[Adrian Robert <arobert cogsci ucsd edu>]

Hi,

I use Epiphany 1.2.x on my Debian system.  I have a 1GHz machine, but 
using 'epiphany --new-tab url' is rather slow to load up a window, 
presumably because it must load the 1Mb+ binary and link it to its 
shared libraries before turning to the task of finding whether an 
instance of epiphany is running.  (A side issue, the new tab should be 
but is not selected, even though --noraise is not given.)

I remember in Gnome 1 programs could communicate with one another using 
CORBA.  I believe this feature is still around in some transformed form 
in Gnome 2, so I was wondering whether there was a simple way to use 
this (in a shell script if possible, or a small binary if not) to 
implement a faster way of asking an existing epiphany process to load a 
URL?  (BTW I know this is NOT the basis of gnome-moz-remote, which I 
think uses a Mozilla-specific interprocess communications protocol.)

Thanks for any suggestions..