Safari cannot open pages, but firefox can.

My daughters Mac Mini has started strange behaviour. Safari will not open most websites (says it can't connect), but Firefox can. This includes sites such as Google and Yahoo, that open on Safari on the other Macs in our home.
Network diagnostics says the machine is connected to the internet (via Airport). Software Update cannot connect either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Joe

Hi William,
Try these suggestions, as they usually remedy the situation your trying to resolve:
Open System Preferences>Network panel
-Location - set up a personal location by clicking on the drop down menu and selecting "add a location". Use a name familiar to you. Once established, select "apply".
-Next, click on the "Show" drop down menu and select Network Port Configurations. Check "Airport" and deselect the others, unless you use a BlueTooth device. Move Airport to the top of the list. Select "apply".
-Back to the "Show" menu, select "Airport". Click on the TCP panel. There, enter on separate lines in the DNS servers box 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 (these are Verizon codes, available to anyone).
In the Finder, go to your Utilities folder and select "Terminal". Once the screen is open copy/paste lookupd -flushcache and press return. This clears out the DNS cache. Once done, quit Terminal.
Restart the computer/Safari.

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