Just hope that this revision prevents the Finder on my i7 iMac from just freezing, which happens on average daily. Wi-Fi is still very strange too. Also, after watching the keynote, FLASH had sucked up 8 GB of RAM. The keynote I thought didn't require FLASH at all but nothing would play once I killed the FLASH player (plugin).

When I updated, and clicked to Update iPhoto or Aperture, the App Store says there are no updates available.

I don't intend to use the integrated Facebook features, but I've been keeping track of the battery life on my Air and it does seem slightly worse since switching to Mountain Lion. Still much, much less of an issue than that pesky wifi/wake from sleep bug from a while back.

you know...I really like the look of the new iPod touches...

I guess the filesize of this seed hints to a release as well. It's much smaller, probably stripped of debug information.

This version makes ML considerably more stable, fluid, and snappier in all areas of the OS.

Hell, the words 'Snow' and 'Leopard' even spring to mind when seeing how cleanly it logs in, shuts down, opens and closes programs, and swaps between them.

I'm impressed.

It has shown "Upgrade to iPhoto or Aperture" for the last two builds.

This isn't new to c53

If this release has iOS 6 integration functions, then I would expect release to occur after ios 6 release and tests by beta users. So I would say release is not imminent; give it two weeks or a hair less.

Once this is released, if the general public consensus is that it's resolved the battery issues people have been having in 10.8 and 10.8.1, then I'll finally go ahead and upgrade from 10.7.4.

Any Mac developers around? It's frustrating to be in the sidelines, I have an iOS developer license but not a Mac developer license, and I would like to report an easily reproducible problem in Safari.

Test case:
Open Safari; Go to Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy and make sure that "Block cookies" is set to either "Never" or "From third parties and advertisers", then close the preferences window (Esc); Quit Safari (Command+Q); Delete (or move) your ~/Library/Safari and ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari directories; Open Safari; Go to Safari -> Private Browsing and press "OK" when prompted; Enter http://www.reddit.com/ in the address field; Once at the site, login to it and check the "remember me" box; Once logged in, quit Safari (Command+Q); Open Safari; Enter http://www.reddit.com/ in the address field (you should be logged out at this point because you logged in during Private Browsing); Go to Safari -> Private Browsing and press "OK" when prompted; Press Command+R to refresh reddit (at this point, Safari remembers your previous Private Browsing session and you are logged back in -- this shouldn't happen); Go to Safari -> Reset Safari, mark all the checkboxes and press "Reset"; Enter http://www.reddit.com/ in the address field (Safari continues to remember the Private Browsing session when you logged in -- this shouldn't happen, especially after the reset); Return to step 3 and repeat everything up to this step again (you will notice that even wiping the directories doesn't reset the Private Browsing session -- this shouldn't happen).
This is happening on Safari 6.0 in OS X 10.8.1 on a late-2011 high-end 15" MacBook Pro. Wonder if I'm the only one having issues (it could be a permission issue somewhere in the filesystem) or this is a real bug. If this is a real bug, then Private Browsing is less private than regular browsing since there's no clear way to wipe locally stored data.

Thanks in advance!