It is difficult to use "add to search bar", and the results cannot be searched.
Modified an XML file, which exists:
~ /Documents and Settings/{username}/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/profiles/xgrkrlwa. Default/searchplugins
Store as microsoft-academic-search.xml
Then, you'll get this:
<? XML version = "1.0"?> <Searchplugin xmlns = "http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"> <shortname> Microsoft academic search </shortname> <description> Microsoft academic search </description> <inputencoding> UTF-8 </inputencoding> <image width = "16" Height = "16"> data: image/PNG; base64, examples/examples/wuxng +/examples/u/examples + zehl5ip + kxe58ae/samples + fy7yynaa7 + signature + clcyyrwksing + signature + jrjwoyow2p/rqz/examples + Signature /4 xdeuom + 3 + keys + ixh1_1 + gartt8kzmv6zd/7zuqa3ytyu0 + keys/ucjdl/uijakcp9px/keys + keys </image> <URL type = "text/html" method = "get" template = "http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Search"> <Param name = "query" value = "{searchterms}"/> </URL> <searchform> http://academic.research.microsoft.com/</searchform> </ searchplugin>