We studied the evolution of isolated strange stars (SSs) synthetically, considering the influence of r-mode instability. Our results show that the cooling of SSs with non-ultrastrong magnetic fields is delayed by heating due to r-mode damping for millions of years, while the spin-down of the stars is dominated by gravitational radiation (GR). Especially for the SSs in a possible existing colour–flavour locked (CFL) phase, the effect of r-mode instability on the evolution of stars becomes extremely important because the viscosity, neutrino emis...
