Safari won't load Paypal but firefox works fine

I've seen a few threads on this problem but nothing I've tried seems to work. Two days ago safari stopped being able to access Paypal on both my Macbook Air and iMac. Both machines are less than 6 moths old, running the latest OS X and have all the updates installed. The problem became apparent when I tried to make an eBay purchase and the redirect to Paypal failed. I tried opening Paypal from Safari directly and it returns the message "Safari cannot open the page "..." because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server."
So far, I have checked the date & time settings, rebooted everything, checked all the certificates on Keychain deleting any that had expired and I have changed the DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 - this had the effect of causing iMessenger to cease to work and also prevented me from accessing the iCloub website stating the same "Failed to open page" message. In exasperation I have even reinstalled OS X on my Macbook which did work for about thirty seconds, allowing me to login to paypal but on going back to the sight after restarting to double check, it has reverted back to the failed to open page status. iMessanger and iCloud are now fixed though.
I have downloaded and opened Firefox and tried the same web address and it works fine.
The Paypal issue is a mystery therefore that I hope someone can help with as it's effected both my machines and I have had to revert to the iPhone App to pay for anything using Paypal, which is a pain. Any ideas would be most welcome.

MIght be a cookies, cache, or extension issue ..
From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Privacy tab.
Click: Remove All Website Data
Then delete the cache.
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that didn't help, troubleshoot Safari extensions.
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.

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