Challenges getting Safari to open pages that Firefox has no issue with

I would love to use Safari as my primary web browser but I can't due to continuously getting errors or the page just doesn't appear correctly. This error in particular is confusing:
+"Access to this web site requires that cookies pass properly between your web browser and this web server. Please check the following and retry your request:+
+-- your web browser is configured to accept cookies.+
+-- you are using a fully qualified domain name in your URL."+
Is there some way to work around this? I think (not certain) that most of my difficulty pertains to sites that were developed under Microsoft proprietary coding but why would Firefox work and not Safari?
Let me know please.
Thanks

HI,
"Access to this web site requires that cookies pass properly between your web browser and this web server. Please check the following and retry your request:
-- your web browser is configured to accept cookies.
-- you are using a fully qualified domain name in your URL."
From the Safari Menu Bar click Safari/Preferences then select the Security tab.
Where you see: Accept Cookies
Make sure: *Only from sites I visit* is selected.
Relaunch Safari.
Carolyn

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