Solutions To Apple's Many Little But Overall Annoying Fails in Mountain Lion?

Question

I am one of the people who found the Apple Mountain Lion upgrade surprisingly smooth for something I bought and installed on the first day.
What I am finding ironic is how Apple is making me want to kill Mountain Lion (no real animals were harmed in the making of this post).
How many of you have had these problems or found solutions to them:
- Safari made less usable by removal of things like Activity and other download etc. Tracking windows.
- Safari will fail to scroll with a mouse, trackpad or page up or down keys/buttons on sites like FaceBook. Restarting Safari makes problem go away. I don't think FaceBook developers quickly make changes in synch with my Safari quit/starts.
- How D**B and dangerous to have Mail force an iCloud account as the FROM address even when replying to emails received at other email addresses. Especially problematic when replying to office emails on personal Mac and sending out your private email address to business/colleagues. Or if you had an anonymous-type generic address for some communications you will inadvetently expose your true identity.
- How st**id and irritating not to be able to change the sort order of accounts in Mail pop-up menus or preferences.
- Never had Time Machine give a "is already in use" error and failing to backup, but it started today.
- It is even more unintuitive to try to manage printer queues than it was before.
- Messages app can be deadly to CPU usage.
- Regular hangs on shutdown after unmount of /home etc. failed errors.
- Spotlight will often display least used apps instead of most used apps when typing a name. E.g. KEYC will always show me KeyCue instead of KeyChain...
- How ironic that the same week that Apple buys Authentec (I use their finger print readers on macs and pcs) their software stops working on Mac OS X. LOL
- Apple used to give a consistent user experience. But that is increasingly not the case. Even in small things like Dictation in ML vs Dictation in iOS. In iOS you hit the dictate button, speak, and hit space or the same button and it translates the voice to text. In Mac the similar function erases your recorded audio if you hit Space rather than the command key.
I could go on, but you get the idea. I have been a Mac evangelist (not an Apple employee) since Mac came out. But, the more other companies are getting their act together, the more inconsistent Apple experiences are becoming. Steve Jobs would be not be proud.
Happy to be corrected or given solutions to these issues above.
Imran Anwar

Answer 1

Ralph, you are not adding any value nor providing solutions with advice like "go back to Lion" and I'd rather not waste time in a flame war. I must however make two observations...
- I am surprised you say you have not seen any posts about Messages' high CPU usage... because a quick search and click on the FIRST one I found showed YOUR own reply....
Ralph Johns (UK)
Ferndown UK
Re: Why is Messages using up so much CPU?
Feb 24, 2012 5:58 PM (in response to MacFanBoy1997)
so kindly look through your own posts before obviously incorrectly claiming you have not heard about an issue, and getting argumentative when people like me are seeking solutions. If you do not have a solution, do not offer one.
- Regarding your not having the problem in Mail also, again, Good For You. Others too had the problem...  https://discussions.apple.com/message/19140276#19140276 and it was in https://discussions.apple.com/message/19038539 that I found a solution, which is not very intuitive. To change the order of pop-up listing of accounts you do not go into Preferences, where one would assume such, ummmm, preferences should be, but drag the order the folders are displayed in the emails window. In any case, glad to have resolution on that. But have not tried it yet. I'll try it when I get to my Mountain Lion machine (am on a Lion iMac right now).
- Lastly, I am sure you have helped some people in the past (maybe even me somewhere along the way considering your Level 9 etc.) but advising me not to use Mountain Lion because I am pointing out flaws, bugs, poor design, or removed functionality clearly is not helpful. In that case, of course, the best advice I'd give you would be not to give advice.
I did not read some other follow up emails that I have since arrived from other people, so hopefully some of them actually offer solutions to these or other issues I posted about.
Regards,
Imran