Unable to drag Gmail icon to my Dock on Mac

If you mean you created a webloc file by dragging the URL to the desktop, you have to drag and drop it to the right of the Dock separation line, if your Dock is at the bottom, or below the line if you have the Dock on the side.

Add your Gmail account to your Mail app and drag the Mail app into the Dock. That way you don't have to use a browser to access your mail.

What exactly are trying to drag to the Dock? There's no GMail app for Macs.

You can add your Gmail account to System Preferences > Internet Accounts then it will also show up in Mail.

dialabrain wrote:

Just curious, why not just bookmark GMail in your browser or set gmail.com as the browser startup page?

Or, if you're a multiple tabs person, just have Gmail in a permanently open tab so it's always there if you keep your browser open all the time (I do).

Just curious, why not just bookmark GMail in your browser or set gmail.com as the browser startup page?

dialabrain wrote:

Actually you don't need to keep a browser open all the time. If you quit a browser with Tabs open, they should be open the next time you start it. Which is what I do.

Fair comment ... but as I spend most of my Mac-life online, I keep my browser open until nighttime sleep. (Oh and I do have it set to 'Open with last session')

BTW, which version of macOS are you running?

Okay well, what kind of shortcut are you referring to?

Actually you don't need to keep a browser open all the time. If you quit a browser with Tabs open, they should be open the next time you start it. Which is what I do.