JupyterLab: How to save a figure from the notebook
Following the suggestion from @Matt, I opened an issue in GitHub and got the answer: the old menu is available by holding down Shift while doing a two-fingers click on a Mac, or doing a Shift + right-click on Linux/windows
Source: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/3043#event-1272299457
Shift + Right click
works well (as foglerit mentioned).
Another alternative is to right on the output of a cell and select Create New View for Output
. This will allow you to interact with all figures from an output as if they were just images.