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About 3500 bugs were fixed for the Firefox 66 cycle; they aren't all in the release notes though. If you are curious about the full list, you can take a look! The query will take a few moments to run: https://mzl.la/2G1l6Ld

They have time-based releases.

Ok I was not aware of that. Has it always been the case?

Well more or less, except the time was 1 year or more for "major" releases. After Chrome went out and incremented major version with every release, firefox went after them.

Chrome doesn't have super huge list of new features either.

Anyway, here's the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Releas...

Since 2011. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

Since version 5 in 2011. For a while it was a monthly release, but since version 22/23 in June/August 2013 it's slowed down to every other month.

After chrome started a policy of version number inflation, firefox, firefox did the same for marketing reasons, else'd we'd be on like... version 6.6 instead of 66.0

No, it would be 5.10. Because, 1 to 4 are non-rapid releases, 5 would be the Servo epoch.

This comment has been posted on every Firefox release for the past 8 years.