Mountain Lion - Safari 6 and Private Browsing

Safari 6 - Mountain Lion.
If I enable Private Browsing, I am not able to read a new page.
To do an example: If I have active yahoo page and I try to resume an other internet page (i.e. repubblica) from top sites page, the address change, but no refresh graphically and safari become not usable... I think is a Safari mngt cache bug. Please fix it. The issue is easily reproducible.

Probably, I found the solution. I had an extension in Safari enable (Clicktoflash version 2.6.2) that generated the issue.
Disabled the extension, it seems work correctly. I noticed that there is an update of this extesion (2.6.9).
I must try the new version.

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