The area filling drop down menu has very, very many colors, which means a lot of scrolling. Change that to the no scroll color matrix already in use for font color selection.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46840 ***
Turns out that the area filling drop down uses a different control than the line color. So reopening + blocking the meta bug.
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