A tab is a user-interface element that, when clicked on, displays the record data on a page specific to that object.
To customize your personal tab settings, navigate to Your Name | My Settings | Display & Layout | Customize My Tabs. Now, choose the tabs that will get displayed in each of your apps by moving the tab name between the Available Tabs and Selected Tabs sections, and click on Save. The following screenshot shows you the section of tabs for the Sales app:
To customize the tab settings of your users, navigate to Setup | Manage Users | Profiles. Now, select a profile and click on Edit. Scroll down to the Tab Settings section of the page, as shown in the following screenshot:
Salesforce provides tabs for each of the standard objects that are provided in the application when you sign up. For example, there are standard tabs for Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, and so on.
You can create three different types of custom tabs: Custom Object Tabs, Web Tabs, and Visualforce Tabs.
Custom Object Tabs allow you to create, read, update, and delete the data records in your custom objects. Web Tabs display any web URL in a tab within your Salesforce application. Visualforce Tabs display custom user-interface pages created using Visualforce.
Bear the following in mind when creating custom tabs:
To create custom tabs for a custom object, navigate to Setup | Create | Tabs. Now, select the appropriate tab type and/or object from the available selections, as shown in the following screenshot:
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