I came upon MGTEK adblockie and they somehow are able to put their extension icon on the url bar. Screenshot here:

Why don't you guys do that too? Because the statusbar on IE is not on by default so it might not be obvious to people. Although you guys might need to dig deep into how they did that...maybe insider document?
But yeah, MGTEK's adblockie is really good too, actually as good as abp for firefox with all the features. Too bad they are paid.