For buttons or links that navigate a user to a standard tab, you
can redirect the content to present a list of standard objects.
Create a
Visualforce page with the following markup:
<apex:page action="{!URLFOR($Action.Account.List, $ObjectType.Account)}"/>
The user will see a page that resembles the following:
Overriding the Account Detail Page
The
Visualforce page can also refer to other standard objects, such as contacts,
by changing the reference to the standard object. For example:
<apex:page action="{!URLFOR($Action.Contact.List, $ObjectType.Contact)}"/>