Make Safari thumbnails permanent in the dock?

When I have a Safari window minimized, it appears as a thumbnail on the right side of the Dock.  But when I click on it to make the window appear again on the screen, the thumbnail disappears.  Which means that I can't just use the thumbnails in the Dock to quickly switch back and forth between Safari windows…the only way to maintain this is to manually minimize the Safari window each time I want to switch to another window.  On a Windows PC it's easy…the browser window thumbnails simply stay in the tray at the bottom, allowing you to just click back and forth to activate whichever browser window you want.
Is there a way to force a Mac to emulate this?  Just have all Safari windows appear as thumbnails in the dock no matter which ones are minimized or maximized at any given time?

This how it is done in Yosemite.
I don't have Mountain Lion installed to test.
System Preferences > Dock
Enable "Minimize windows into application icon".
Click yellow navigational button to minimize  windows into  Safari icon in the Dock.
Once windows are minimized, right click on the Safari icon in the Dock and select the desired window.
Windows will be listed with a diamond icon beside.

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