Changing footprint selection window

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The new “Footprint chooser” window is the new standard dialog for selecting footprints. The old window is currently available from the pcb editor–>View–>Footprint library browser. There is no flag/setting to change the displayed footprint selection dialog.

The missing ability to quickly measure something in the “footprint chooser” dialog is tracked in gitlab issue #17107: Measurement tool missing from footprint chooser (#17107) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

Note that the new “footprint chooser” dialog on the other hand offers some new improvements/additions, which may help in the everyday work.
You may read a longer discussion here:

Quickly checking measurements in footprint selector, gone in KiCad 8.0?

In KiCad 8, is there a way to check if the footprint has a 3D model or just quickly cross check some measurements? In KiCad 7, you were able to do some measurements or check if the model had a 3D part when selecting footprints for parts in the schematic editor. Was this removed altogether? One of the things that I’ll often do, is that for footprints that I’m not creating myself, I’ll at least quickly cross check some measurements and if it has a 3D model, but with that option gone, it’s somewh…