Comment 24 for bug 1838448

The main problem with these assertions is they are turning problems that were non-fatal into fatal crashes (this is a good example, it didn't crash on every other platform that was tried, other than Fedora where the assertions were enabled). In release builds that is not usually desired.

I can see the utility of this for nightly and debug builds, so it might be worth adding this as an explicit flag we pass for debug release types and have the nightly builds add it, but I still don't think it belongs in the release builds.