Safari AND Firefox will not open Flickr or Yahoo

Hi
I'm running MAC OS X 10.7.5, Safari version 6.1.3 and Firefox 29.0.1.
Both Flickr and any related Yahoo page will NOT open on either browser.
WHen I try to open Flickr, Firefox comes up with the error message 'Unable to connect. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.flickr.com'
Safari comes up with a grey screen and the error message 'Safari can't connect to the server. Safari can't open the page https://www.flickr.com because Safari can't connect to the server www.flickr.com'.
When I try Yahoo the Yahoo home page loads but everything is in blue text and a very basic version. If I click on any of the links the same error messages as above show up.
This has been happening for about 6 months. I was originally only using Safari, but installed Firefox only this evening in an attempt to try and solve the problem, but it has not helped. I get the same problem on both browsers. Safari worked fine before. I cannot remember anything happening or any change of setting that may have set this off. I have trawled every forum imaginable and followed all the advice I can find, to no avail. I have tried:
Clearing out caches. Regularly.
Resetting Safari
Changing the DNS settings
Looking into the Ipv6 settings (there is no option to turn it 'off'. Changing it to 'link local' only turned the WiFi off
Turning the Firewall off.
Turning the Firewall back on.
I have not tried changing any router settings as I'm not sure how. But I can open Yahoo and Flickr no problem using my HTC phone so it can't be a router problem? I am tearing my hair out here! I read somewhere that Yahoo and Flickr are very closely linked, so the problem must be related to a setting with these sites?
Can anyone out there help? Please!!

Marwood71,
yes, Yahoo! bought Flickr back in 2005, so they are closely linked.
If you’re trying to use Flickr’s secure HTTP site, then try connecting to https://secure.flickr.com/ instead.

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