Comment 2 for bug 1820540

(I'm not a KiCad developer.)

What preview window do you mean? When I e.g. attach a footprint to a symbol there's a view in the dialog which shows the footprint. Zooming and panning work just like in the footprint editor or board editor.

I agree that the footprints should be zoomed automatically without taking the texts into consideration. It's annoying to try to find a footprint using the arrow key to move from one footprint in the list to the next one when the zoom level changes between similar footprints. Oftentimes there are only small differences between consecutive footprints which I want to compare.